Cufon, Sifr and Flir are very powerful tools for designers and developers: They allow you to embed any font in a web page. Though, you have to be careful with font licences. In this article, I’m going to show you 10 very good looking fonts that you can embed in your websites.

Scripts like sIFR, Flir, and of course Cufon made it easy for developers and designers to be able to use nice fonts as such as Myriad Pro or Helvetica Neue and since some month, we see more and more blogs or website with fancy titles.

This is clearly a great thing, because web safe fonts are extremely limitating. Though, there is a problem that many people seems to neglect: Lots of fonts licences, even free ones, doesn’t allow you to embed it on webpages, or redistribute it.

In this article, you’ll find a showcase of ten absolutely beautiful fonts that you can embed fith @font-face, Cufon, sIFR, or Flir.

Thanks for this list! Looking to use Capralba. It’s only in vfb format. Any help for us PC users use would be greatly appreciated since the only solution I’ve found is $$$ TransType to convert it to ttf. Thanks.

Jim Hensey

Ooops! Meant the Flaminia Type System, not the name of the sign in that font in the picture. Oh boy, long day.

Thanks for the new fonts! I hope to be able to use such cool looking fonts when my ability will allow. It is just a matter of time.

Chris

http://subsumo.ca Jacob Friedman

I think this licensing issue with cufon/sifr/typeface is ridiculous. I should be able to embed any font I have bought in either a document or webpage. My case: considering a) my intended use of a font on a webpage i.e. for display purposes, much like redistributable printed material and b) that I have not made the font any more available to someone computer-savvy enough to rip the font off through both line traces, I believe my use of so-called “restricted” fonts with web rendering software to be justifiable. I’ve read the EULA and this ‘derivative work’ clause is, to say the least, ULTIMATELY binding:

“Derivative Work” shall mean binary data based upon or derived from Font Software (or any portion of Font Software) in any form in which such binary data (1)may be recast, transformed, or adapted including, but not limited to, binary data in any format into which Font Software may be converted.

What is this jargon? It basically restricts you from doing anything with the font. For example, as soon as you convert your print material into outlines for proofing, you are ::enabling:: (see 1) the printer to recast the type using trace methods.

I’d like to see more opinions on this, as we’re in an age where print productions are marginalized (yes, this is arguable), and web design and production is evolving.

Thoughts?

http://www.diyhomeimprovements.org/ John Mcknight

Nice set of fonts! I love the first one, Fertigo. It’s much more pleasing to my eyes in comparison to the other fonts presented. But, the others are great too!

http://student-loans-for-college.com Reymark

Great fonts especially the Tallys. I like it. I’m sure that’s gonna be cool to my site.

@Jacob Friedman
I couldn’t agree with you more. It’s been quite a while since I try and explain that the web use of a font doesn’t necessarily mean that it is going to be stolen… What I’ve been doing lately is sending mails to the foundries directly… just asking themif I can use their fonts with, let’s say cufon, and as soon as they say I can’t I write backasking them why. So far I didn’t get any answers…
Cheers